The Founders of Rome (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Founders of Rome I Have endeavored in the following sketch to present, in a concise form, some - by no means all - of the interesting questions connected with the origin and formation of the Roman state, particularly as they appear in the light of recent investigations, confining the subject within the first two hundred and forty-four of the traditional seven hundred and fifty-three years which preceded the Christian era, that is to say, from the founding of the city to the end of the monarchy and the dawn of the republic - a period which modern historians hardly recognize as coming within the domain of authentic history at all. Mr. Dennis, in the preface to his "Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, " has borrowed from Pliny the following language: "Res ardua, vetustis novitatem dare, novis auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis gratiam, dubiis fidem, omnibus vero naturam, et naturæ suæ omnia." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.